According to Joe Carnahan's blog, Chris Pine has signed on to be Captain Kirk in JJ Abrams Star Trek. He gives the kid some good advice.

Kids:

The young man playing Junior Stemmons has opted to 'boldly go where no man has gone before' and thus, had to bow out of WHITE JAZZ. I've been talking to him this past week and knew how tough the decision had to be for him. I don't envy ever being in that spot but I gave him my full support, even if it meant he didn't do JAZZ. I get it. You don't get opportunities like that often and I told him as long as he could control as much of that process as possible and not get sucked into doing lesser sequels as a result of taking this gig, then good luck and God bless.

We're sure to do something down the road. I've already slotted him in for KILLING PABLO.

JC

It also looks like Karl Urban is going to be "Bones" McCoy (Don't know how I feel about this one).

I can't remember his name, but the guy who plays Sylar on Heroes has, apparently, been cast as Spock which is as perfect as it gets, but not as perfect as Simon Pegg as Scotty. I couldn't possibly be more excited about that. My interest in Star Trek had seriously waned over the years but this has me grinding my teeth in anticipation.